This infographic shows the key results from a study that has revealed the interstellar thread of phosphorus, one of life’s building blocks.Thanks to ALMA, astronomers…
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Artist impression of the merging galaxy NGC 6240. Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello ALMA sees material around two growing supermassive black holes in unprecedented detail. An…
Radio image of Jupiter made with ALMA. Bright bands indicate high temperatures and dark bands low temperatures. The dark bands correspond to the zones on…
Artist’s impression of a young galaxy surrounded by a huge gaseous cloud. Credit: NAOJ ALMA Spots Earliest Environment Pollution in the Universe Researchers have discovered…
Artist impression of what MAMBO-9 would look like in visible light. The galaxy is very dusty and it has yet to build most of its…
Artistic rendering of a neutron star enveloped by a shroud of dust and gas. Credit: Cardiff University The leftovers from a spectacular supernova that revolutionized…
A volume rendering of the ionized gas wind in Makani. Two of the dimensions are spatial, and the third is velocity. The colors trace the…
A team of astronomers at UMass Amherst, the University of Arizona and Swinburne University report that they have by chance discovered faint traces of a…
Artist’s impression of gas flowing like a waterfall into a protoplanetary disk gap, which is most likely caused by an infant planet. Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, S.…
Artist impression of the heart of galaxy NGC 1068, which harbors an actively feeding supermassive black hole, hidden within a thick doughnut-shaped cloud of dust…
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) captured this unprecedented image of two circumstellar disks, in which baby stars are growing, feeding with material from their…
As young planets grow within these discs they carve out gaps, leading to a structure of concentric rings. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada Astronomers using one of…
[embedded content] Artists’ animation showing Jupiter in radio waves with ALMA and in visible light with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), I.…
Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have revealed what may be the most distant shrouded black hole, which may have existed only 850 million years…
This is SS 433, a microquasar first discovered forty years ago and located about 18,000 light-years away in the constellation of Aquila (The Eagle). This…
Artist’s impression of the gaseous disk and envelope around the massive protostar G353.273+0.641. Credit: National Astronomical Observatory of Japan Astronomers obtained the first detailed face-on…
Artist’s impression of the merging galaxies B14-65666 located 13 billion light years-away (Credit: National Astronomical Observatory of Japan) Researchers using the radio telescope ALMA (Atacama…
This week’s Picture of the Week highlights another of the 20 images to come out of ALMA’s first Large Program, the Disk Substructures at High Angular Resolution Project (DSHARP).…
Artist impression of Orion Source I, a young, massive star about 1,500 light-years away. New ALMA observations detected a ring of salt — sodium chloride,…
False-color image of V883 Ori taken with ALMA. The distribution of dust is shown in orange and the distribution of methanol, an organic molecule, is…